On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A > landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards, > driveways, garages, streets, sidewalks) and a landuse=forest area > isn't all trees. > > still it isn't at all a forest. landuse forest is a documented tag for forests and forests means an area with trees. all the other areas you will find in a national forest have well defined tags natural/landuse=wood,glacier,heat,meadow,shrub .... just because google,yahoo,garmin draws national forests in green we shouldn't make the same stupid mistake in osm > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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